Abraxas (Dieterich), 388n.5
Achievement of T.S. Eliot, The (Matthiessen), 393n.9
Achilles, 103, 155, 166, 220, 312
Achilles Tatius (fl. 2nd cent. C.E.), xxiv, xxv, 169, 308–14
Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, 146
Adams, Hazard (b. 1926), 101, 398n.30
Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), 308
Adonis, 40, 162, 175, 189, 233, 297, 310
Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, The (Achilles Tatius), xxiv, xxv, 308–14
advertising, xv, 26, 81, 128, 308
Aeneas, 162, 191, 214, 218, 226
Aeneid, The (Virgil), 175, 176, 225
Aeschylus (ca. 525–ca. 456 B.C.E.), 174
Aesop (6th century B.C.E.), 343
Aethiopian History, An (Heliodorus of Emesa), xxiv, 154–61, 169
After Strange Gods (Eliot), 14, 83, 92
Against Apion (Josephus), 173
Agamemnon (Aeschylus), 174
“Agon and Logos” (Frye), 411n.10
Agnostos Theos (Norden), 174
Alcmaeon (Euripedes), 163
Aldhelm of Malmesbury (ca. 640–703 C.E.), 63, 392n.3
Alexander Lectures, xx
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 25, 389n.33
All Hallow’s Eve (Williams), xxx
All’s Well that Ends Well (Shakespeare), 14
Altarwise by Owl-light (Thomas), 400n.46
America: A Prophecy (Blake), 368
American English, 47–8
American Novel Today, The (Michaud), 389n.26
analogy, 7, 44, 66, 99, 103, 154, 161, 301, 304, 318, 320, 325
anatomy (form of prose fiction), xiv, xxx, 3, 26, 37
Anatomy of Criticism (Frye), xiv, xvii, xviii, xx, xxi, xxxii, 95, 98, 111, 134, 322, 323, 330, 337, 338, 340
Anatomy of Melancholy, The (Burton), 37, 53, 96
Ancient Romances (Perry), 161, 162, 406n.26
Anderson, Sherwood (1876–1941), 33
Anglo-Norman Chronicle of Nicholas Trivet, 152, 406n.21
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 245
Anglosaxony: A League that Works (Lewis), 83
anima: figure, 316
figure in mirror, 287
hero’s own figure, 286
subconscious, 108
symbol, 303
vision, 305
Anne of Geierstein (Scott), xxiv, 258–60
Annesley, Susanna (1669–1742), 385, 416n.10
Antiquary, The (Scott), xxiv, 194, 202–8
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 37, 374
Apes of God, The (Lewis), xix, 80, 84
aphorisms, 20
Apollonian culture, 321
Apollonius of Tyre, xxiv, 137, 161–4, 174
Apolonius and Silla (Riche), 145
applause, 46
“Approaching the Lyric” (Frye), 415n.37
Apuleius, Lucius (ca. 125–ca. 180 C.E.), 146, 174, 299
Aquinas, Thomas (1225–1274), 122
Arcadia (Sidney), xxiv, xxvi, xxvii, 213–44
Alcinous, 141
amaranth, 264
amnesia, 143
Andromeda, 159
Barabbas, 191
Battle of Harlaw, 207
biblical writing, 53
birthmark, 183
Bosworth, 225
Buddha, 171
the calumniated heroine, 179
Calypso, 277
cherry-tree carol, 141
cipher in the lower world, 185
cruel crawling foam, 203
Crusoe, 184
Damion, 109
Damon and Pythias, 224
death and rebirth, 214
Depression Doodle, 248
disdainful mistress, 217
displaced storm or boar, 142
dragon-swallowing-heroine, 184
educated-by-father, 253
Eros, 141
Esau, 257
Eunuchus, 219
Everyman, 170
frozen statue, 303
Gadarene swine, 140
gentlemen of Verona, 143
Gonzalo, 226
gunpowder plot, 185
Hercules and the snakes, 282
horkos, 183
hunting, 303
imaginative, 316
ingenu, 146
Jungian, 316–17
Ligeia, 230
literary, 345
literary character, 108
loathly lady, 215
Lotus Land, 276
master-to-father, 142
mouse-trap play, 179
Noah, 277
Odyssey, 157
omphale, 218
Orpheus and Eurydice, 288
Phaedria, 155
Philomela, 236
Pilate’s wife, 262
Rasselas, 169–70
Richard I and Blondel, 210
Rudens, 180
sacrifice, 242
Samson, 151
Sarah, 142
sea-parallels to land, 254
shadow-substance, 149
sleeping beauty, 298
titans around infant Zeus, 201
twin, 216
underworld giants and dwarfs, 265
Venus-Psyche, 220
wild man, 199
“Archetypes of Literature, The” (Frye), 111, 402n.1
Arendt, Hannah (1906–1975), 335
aretalogy, 176
Aristophanes (ca. 448–ca. 388 B.C.E.), 190, 314, 409n.71
Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.), xxxii, 62, 102, 103, 166, 385
Arnold, Matthew (1822–1888), 57, 89, 90, 95, 393n.6, 414n.15
art: Anglo-Saxon, 63
authority of, 323
Byzantine, 63
chaos of, 101
emblem of, 286
function of, 371
healing, 126
literary, 365
meaningless, 361
as meditation, 335
modern, 101
nature as, 351
official, 101
popular-primitive, 100
of prose, 78
and religion, 100
of rhetoric, 341
and science, 102
self-reflecting, 81
unpopular, 82
and vision, 102
Wyndham Lewis’s opinions about, 78
Art of T.S. Eliot (Gardner), 393n.8
Arturus Rex, 367
Ascham, Roger (1515–1568), 122
Ash-Wednesday (Eliot), 90, 394n.9
aspects of knowledge, centrifugal and centripetal, 125
Astrolabe (Chaucer), 66
Astrophel and Stella (Sidney), 220
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 38, 54, 147, 149, 216, 405n.12, 407n.41
At a Solemn Music (Milton), 62
Athenaeus (fl. 200 C.E.), 412n.1
Atlantis, 123
Atwood, Margaret (b. 1939), 359
Auden, W.H. (1907–1973), 294, 332
Augustine (354–430 C.E.), 11, 154, 379
aureate diction, 61–74
Austen, Jane (1775–1817), 21, 37, 48, 100
automobile, 21
Ave Maria (Gounod), 55
Axel’s Castle (Wilson), 90
Babiuk, Andriy (1897–1937), xxiii, 359
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685–1750), 54, 323, 384, 400n.44
Back to Methusaleh (Shaw), 273
Bacon, Francis (1561–1626), 28, 31
Bacon, Roger (ca. 1214–1292), 31
Balder, 40
Balla, Giacomo (1871–1958), 101, 398n.31
ballad, 43, 55, 198, 207, 322, 344
Ballad of Agincourt, The (Drayton), 43
Ballad of Our Lady, A (Dunbar), 71
Bampton Lectures, xx, xxxi, 107
Barlaam and Ioasaph, xxiv, 169–72
Barth, Karl (1886–1968), 334
Bartholomew the Englishman (Bartholomew de Glanville) (ca. 1203–1272), 31
Baudelaire, Charles (1821–1867), 91
Beaumarchais, Pierre (1732–1799), 190
Becket, Thomas (1118–1170), 41
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803–1849), 135
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770–1827), 19, 22, 39, 52, 54
Behn, Aphra (1640–1689), 48
Being and Nothingness (Sartre), 349
Beleaguered City, A (Oliphant), 387n.3
belief, 19, 35, 94, 104, 111, 118, 123, 224, 249, 253, 365, 383, 385
Benda, Julien (1867–1956), 331
Benedict, Ruth (1887–1948), 321
Bentley, Eric (b. 1916), 187
Bergson, Henri (1859–1941), 35, 82
Berkeley, George, Bishop (1685–1753), 13, 31, 365, 412n.9
Bible, xvii, xx, 53, 54, 59, 106, 148, 153, 291, 301, 304, 318, 333, 338, 350, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 379, 384
biographical criticism, 26
Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time, 37
Black Tambourine (Crane), 410n.5
Blake, William (1757–1827), xv, xxxii, 17, 34, 35, 43, 52, 100, 101, 107, 108, 112, 113, 131, 136, 293, 322, 329, 350, 357, 370–1, 388n.18
“Blake after Two Centuries” (Frye), 112, 402n.8
Blake’s Job illustrations, 326, 350
“Blake’s Reading of the Book of Job” (Frye), 411n.11
Blast (periodical), 81
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831–1891), 109, 401n.55
Blimp, Colonel, 392n.1
Blissett, William (b. 1921), 90, 393n.8
Bloch, Ernest (1880–1959), 40, 390n.44
Blood and the Moon (Yeats), 350
Bloom, Harold (b. 1930), 319, 406n.29
Bloomfield, Morton (1913–1987), 349
Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von (1742–1819), 52
Bluebeard, 331
B Minor Mass (Bach), 323
Boethius (ca. 480–524 C.E.), 62
Boethius (Chaucer), 66
Bolero (Ravel), 25–6
Bolgan, Anne C. (1923–1992), 90, 393n.8
Bonheur, Rosa (1822–1899), 48
Book of Isaiah, 40, 76, 174, 175, 377, 397
Book of Job, 162, 311, 327, 350
Book of Job as a Greek Tragedy, The (Kallen), 406n.28
Book of Jubilees, 389n.22
Book of Revelation, 40, 153, 322, 356, 364, 378
Book of Wisdom, 382
books, xviii, xx, 5, 20, 31, 79, 80, 125, 297, 302, 319, 348, 360
Borges, Jorge Luis (1899–1986), 341
Borrow, George (1803–1881), 251
Boswell, James (1740–1795), 13
Boucher, François (1703–1770), 53
Bouvard et Pecuchet (Flaubert), 79
Bradley, F.H. (1846–1924), 89
Brahms, Johannes (1833–1897), 54
Brandeis, Robert, xiv
Brecht, Bertolt (1898–1956), 179
Bridge of Sighs, The (Hood), 43
Broadus, E.K. (1876–1936), 57, 391n.70
Brodsky, Joseph (1940–1996), 359
Brooks, Cleanth (1906–1994), 393n.7
Brown, E.K. (1905–1951), 330
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605–1682), 37, 56, 62, 67, 72, 351, 392n.9
Browning, Robert (1812–1889), 25, 34, 43, 44, 51, 52, 54, 62, 353, 389n.30
Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878), 33
Buddha (ca. 563–ca. 483 B.C.E.), 43
Budgen, Frank (1892–1971), 307
Bulgakov, Mikhail (1891–1940), xxiii, 359–60, 387n.2
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (1803–1873), 210
Bunyan, John (1628–1688), xvi, 9, 17, 34, 38, 52, 53, 170, 289
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar (Eliot), 91
Burke, Edmund (1729–1797), 51, 53
Burnet, Gilbert (1643–1715), 37
Burnt Norton (Eliot), 90, 392n.2, 400n.46
Burns, Robert (1759–1796), 12, 38, 54
Burton, Robert (1577–1640), 37, 53, 96, 308
Bush, Douglas (1896–1983), xviii, 76–7
Butler, Samuel (1839–1902), 59
Byrd, William (composer) (1543–1623), 60
Byron, George Gordon Lord (1788–1824), 12, 17, 100, 112, 113, 363, 412n.2
Byzantine art, 63
Byzantium poems (Yeats), xxxii, 108, 109, 110, 350
Cabell, James Branch (1879–1958), 33
Caesar, Julius (ca. 100–44 B.C.E.), 42, 51
Calvin, John (1509–1564), 10
Campbell, Joseph (1904–1987), xviii
Canada, 6, 47, 128, 136, 345, 353, 357, 358–9
Canadian National Railways, 55
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 41, 54
Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881), 82, 101, 332
Carroll, Lewis (1832–1898), 25, 29, 389n.29, 390n.37, 406n.34
Carscallen, James, 384, 415n.4
Cassiodorus (ca. 485–580 C.E.), 62, 63
Castiglione, Baldassare (1478–1529), 223
“Castiglione’s Il Cortegiano” (Frye), 425n.30
Catholicism, 23–4
Catullus (ca. 84–ca. 54 B.C.E.), 51
Cavell, Edith (1865–1915), 45
cena, 363
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547–1616), 9, 37, 192
Cézanne, Paul (1839–1906), 67
Chaereas and Callirhoe (Chariton of Aphrodisias), xxiv, 168–9
Chalk Circle, The (Brecht), 179
Chaminade, Cécile (1857–1944), 48
Chance (Conrad), 337
Chaplin, Charlie (1889–1977), 81
Chapman, George (ca. 1559–1634), 76
Character Analysis (Reich), 413n.10
Chariton of Aphrodisias (fl. 4th century C.E.), xxiv, 168–9
Charlemagne (ca. 742–814 C.E.), 109, 148, 364
Charles II (1630–1685), 331
Charles Eliot Norton Lectureship, 348
“Charms and Riddles” (Frye), 349, 411n.6
Chaucer, Geoffrey (ca. 1345–1400), xxiv, 57, 64, 65, 66, 67–8, 107, 152–4, 401n.53, 406n.18
Cherry-Tree Ballad, 404n.4
Chesterfield, Lord (Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield) (1694–1773), 24, 27, 388n.13, 389n.32
Chesterton, G.K. (1874–1936), 15, 33, 103, 399n.40
Chopin, Frédéric (1810–1849), 9, 12, 45
Chorals (Franck), 390n.38
Chorle and the Bird, The (Lydgate), 69
Christ, 60, 76, 87, 91, 107, 109, 170, 217, 370, 378, 379, 385. See also Jesus
Christianity, 9, 15, 31, 49, 53, 59, 62, 87, 93, 94, 102, 171, 173, 176, 301, 337, 355, 376
Cibber, Colley (1671–1757), 55
Cicero (106–43 B.C.E.), 51, 121, 133, 173
Circus Animals’ Desertion, The (Yeats), 110
Classical Influences in Renaissance Literature (Bush), xviii, 76–7
Clementine Recognitions, xxiv, 161, 167–8, 171
Clerk’s Tale, The (Chaucer), 64
Cleveland, John (1613–1658), 48
Clifford, Rosamond, 405n.13
Clitophon and Leucippe (Achilles). See Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon
Cocktail Party, The (Eliot), 92
cognitio, xxv, xxvii, 184, 191, 192, 205, 206, 207, 211, 268, 275, 284
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834), 44, 82, 291, 301
Collected Poems (Stevens), 112
Collins, Joseph (1866–1950), 7
Collins, Wilkie (1824–1889), xxiv, xxv, 177–86
Colloquies (Erasmus), 146
Colours in the Dark (Reaney), 354
comedy, 28, 106, 194, 237, 245, 313
complete, 216
as enclosing a tragedy, 152
grotesque, 60
of intrigue, 367
of masks, 187
New, 134, 145, 164, 176, 179, 240, 349
non-melodramatic, 29
Shakespearean, 216
social level of, 338
strained situation of, 216
and theory of humours, 93
and tragedy, 350
with tragic stratagem, 150
tragic theme of, 194
truncated, 160
twenty-first century, 22
Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare), 145, 192
commedia dell’arte, 187, 407n.38
communal art, 55
“Communication and the Arts” (Frye), xxii, 120–32
communion, 129–30
Communism, 51
Compend of Alchemy, The (Ripley), 69
“Complaint of Deor, The” (Bloomfield), 349
Compton-Burnett, Ivy (1884–1969), 319
Comstock, Anthony (1844–1915), 24, 389n.27
Comte, Auguste (1798–1857), 35
Comus (Milton), 234
conceit, 8
Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C Major (Mozart), 25
“ ‘Conclusion,’ Literary History of Canada” (Frye), 404n.17
Confessio Amantis (Gower), 152, 392n.6
Confessions (Rousseau), 38
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (De Quincey), xxiv, xxvii, 300–5
Confidential Clerk, The (Eliot), 199
Congo, The (Lindsay), 54
Congreve, William (1670–1729), 37
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (Twain), 41, 390n.49
Conrad, Joseph (1857–1924), 337
Contra Apion (Josephus), 173, 377
Controversiae (Seneca), 163
convention, 70, 76, 88, 109, 135, 146, 185, 190, 214, 217, 231, 235, 236, 245, 264, 302, 318–19, 333
Coonan, Patricia, 315, 317, 325, 328, 331, 332, 334, 342, 345
Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473–1543), 121
Corelli, Marie (1855–1924), 48
Coriolan 1: Triumphal March, The (Eliot), 91, 92
Cornford, F.M. (1886–1960), 190
Corvo, Baron (1860–1913), 293
cosmetics, 38–9
Country Wife, The (Wycherley), 17
courage, 14, 52, 84, 193, 242, 253
Courtier, The (Castiglione), 223
Cowley, Abraham (1618–1667), 62
Crabbe, George (1754–1832), 8
Crane, Hart (1899–1932), 343, 410n.5
Crashaw, Richard (1612–1649), 5
creation, xxix, 30, 73, 99, 250, 378
of art, 6
centre of all, 287
as datum, 93
differentiation from criticism, 343
divine, 290
Genesis account of, 352
harmony as reflex of, 291
Job’s vision of and God’s response, 326–7
the light that starts, 322
of a myth, 110
of nature, xx
promises of, 129
spirit of, 376
of the world, 92
Critic, The (Sheridan), 199, 389n.31
Critical Path, The (Frye), 348
critics, xvi, xix, 26, 29, 33, 44, 47, 49, 96, 111, 199, 202, 319–20, 341, 343, 353, 356
criticism, xxi, 76, 131, 175, 330, 340, 342, 347, 348
of the Bible, 75, 78, 153, 301, 318, 338, 350, 352, 354, 356
biographical, 78
of Borges, 341
differentiated from creation, 343
disarming of, by Twain, 42
egotistic, 6
Empson’s, 76
English, of American literature, 33
as evaluative, 134
form, 356
inadequate, 16
as intelligent reading, 49
as interpenetrating with other disciplines, 340
in Latin America, 341
as a new discipline, 321
the New Testament, 18
origin of, 343
practical, 350
realism in, 320
religious implications of, 356
slipshod, 12
as a kind of social science, 321
as the study of literature, 131, 132
technique of as a function of art, 371
“Criticism, Visible and Invisible” (Frye), 135, 403n.5
Crosland, T.W.H. (1865–1924), 31
cultural separatism, 361
culture, 6, 8, 19, 27, 40, 46, 47, 76, 82, 84, 94, 95, 102, 103, 104, 113, 120, 124, 125, 131, 215, 321, 322, 334, 343, 357
Cupid and Psyche, 139
Currelly, Charles (1876–1957), 354
curriculum: medieval, 116
university; 121
“Cycle and Apocalypse in Finnegans Wake” (Frye), xx, 415n.31
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 100
Cynewulf (fl. 9th century), 63
Damon, S. Foster (1893–1971), 225, 329, 350, 410n.2
Dance of Death, The (Warren), 392n.7
Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins, The (Dunbar), 70
Daniells, Roy (1902–1979), xxiii, 90, 329, 393
D’Annunzio, Gabriele (1863–1938), xv, 42
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), 9, 42, 89, 108, 329, 401n.53
Daphnis and Chloe (Longus), xxiii, xxvi, 138–42, 147
Darwin, Charles (1809–1882), 31, 35
Davideis (Cowley), 62
Davies, Sir John (1569–1626), 62
Dead March (Händel), 54
Death in the Desert, A (Browning), 52
“Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, The” (Frye), 411n.9
De Dea Syria (Lucian), 162
Defence of Poetry, A (Shelley), 357, 395n.22
Defensio Prima (Milton), 179
Deipnosophists (Athenaeus), 412n.1
de la Mare, Walter, 387n.3
Deloney, Thomas (1550–1600), 103
de Man, Paul (1919–1983), xviii
Demosthenes (384–322 B.C.E.), 121
De Quincey, Thomas (1784–1859), xxiv, xxvii, 181, 300–8
descent quest, 331
“Design as a Creative Principle in the Arts” (Frye), 396n.4, 398n.28, 403n.2
detective story, xv, 5, 11, 36
“Developing Imagination, The” (Frye), 395n.2
DeWitt, N.W. (1876–1958), 175, 406n.30
Diabolical Principle, The (Lewis), xix, 82
“Dialectic of Belief and Vision, The” (Frye), xxviii, 355
Diana of the Ephesians, 146, 405n.8
Diary (Evelyn), 38
Diary of Samuel Pepys, The, 37
Dickens, Charles (1812–1870), 21, 32, 55, 80, 93, 96, 135, 181, 186, 209, 319, 391n.65, 406–7n.36
“Dickens and the Comedy of Humours” (Frye), 404n.12, 406–7n.36
Dickinson, Emily (1830–1886), xxi, 19, 112, 113
Dieterich, Albrecht, 388n.5
Dio Chrysostom (40–120 C.E.), 146
Dionysian culture, 321–2
Dionysos, 93
Directeur, Le (Eliot), 91
Dish of Orts, A (MacDonald), 409n.69
displacement, xxvi, 95, 105, 111, 142, 145, 157, 160, 163, 177, 181, 182, 189, 190, 195, 196, 197, 203, 206, 207, 217, 246, 247, 253, 259, 271, 277, 278, 284, 287, 290 320, 325
dissociation of sensibility, 89, 392n.3
Dithyrambic Spectator, The (Lewis), xix
Divine Comedy (Dante), 107
Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak), xviii, 85–8
Dolzani, Michael, xix, xx, xxiii, xxx, 59
“Domain of Arnheim, The” (Poe), 366, 412n.11
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 13–14, 41, 49, 346
Donne, John (1572–1631), 38
Double Vision, The (Frye), xxv, 363–7
doublethink, 364
Douglas, Gavin (1475–1522), 71–2, 73
Drayton, Michael (1563–1631), 43
Dream of Vasavadatta, The, 189
Drew, Elizabeth (1877–1965), 90, 393n.8
Droeshout, Martin (1601–1650), 30, 390n.40
“Drunken Boat: The Revolutionary Element in Romanticism, The” (Frye), 394n.21, 396n.6, 404n.11
Dry Salvages, The (Eliot), 390n.11
Dryden, John (1631–1700), 54, 62, 90, 93
Dubliners (Joyce), 54
Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster), xxv, 215
Duke of Marlborough (John Churchill) (1650–1722), 54
Dunbar, William (ca. 1456–ca. 1513), 69–71, 73
Duns Scotus (ca. 1265–1308) 122
Dvořák, Antonín (1841–1904), 54
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (Balla), 398n.31
Earle, John (ca. 1601–1665), 37
Earthly Paradise, The (Morris), 224, 266, 273
East Coker (Eliot), 91
Eco, Umberto (b. 1932), 413n.12 and n.14
Edible Woman, The (Atwood), 359
Educated Imagination, The (Frye), xx, 97–106, 396n.19 and n.20
Edward II (Marlowe), 375
Edward III (1312–1377), 250
Ego Dominus Tuus (Yeats), 401n.53
Egyptian Book of the Dead, The, xx, 306
Eikonoklastes (Milton), 68
Einstein, Albert (1879–1955), 124
“Elementary Teaching and Elemental Scholarship” (Frye), 403n.6
Eliade, Mircea (1907–1986), 107
Eliot, George (1819–1880), 21
Eliot, T.S. (1888–1965), xix, xxi, 14, 66, 72, 78, 81–2, 89–93, 164, 194, 199, 330, 344, 388n.7, 388n.16, 392n.2, 393n.3, 400n.46
Elizabeth I, Queen (1533–1603), 94, 122, 217, 376
Elizabeth II, Queen (b. 1926), 129
Elmer Gantry (Lewis), 15
Elsie Venner (Holmes), 5, 388n.2
Elstree, 389n.35
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–1882), 19, 91
Emile (Rousseau), 38
“Emily Dickinson” (Frye), 402n.12
Emmanuel College, xiv, xvii, xviii, 3, 4
Empson, William (1906–1984), 76
Enclosed Garden, The (Stewart), 406n.31
Engels, Friedrich (1820–1895), 51
English Mail-Coach, The (De Quincey), xxiv, xxvii, 306–8
ensemble performance, 55
Ephesiaca (Xenophon of Ephesus), xxiii, 142–5
Epigrapher, The (Pratt), 35–4
Epistle of Karshish, The (Browning), 52
Epithalamion (Spenser), 59
Erasmus, Desiderius (ca. 1466–1536), 9, 37, 76, 146
Essay on the Imagination (MacDonald), xxiv, 290–1
Étude Music Magazine, 19, 389n.23
Euclid (fl. 300 B.C.E.), 62
Euphues (Lyly), 147
Euripides (ca. 480–406 B.C.E.), 7, 174
Eve of St. Agnes, The (Keats), 330
Evelyn, John (1620–1706, 38
Everyman in His Humour (Jonson), 207, 389n.20
“Expanding Eyes” (Frye), 335, 341, 349, 411n.5
fable, 56, 150, 222, 240, 305, 343
Fables of Identity (Frye), xx, xxi, 351
fads, 27–8
Faerie Queene, The (Spenser), 149, 191, 289
faith vs. reason, 352–3
Family Reunion, The (Eliot), 92
Farewell to the Military Profession (Riche), 146
Fearful Symmetry (Frye), xxxii, 112, 337
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762–1814), 35
fiction, Frye’s, xxx
Fielding, Henry (1707–1754), 37
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), xix–xx, 96, 113, 213, 227, 307, 308, 400n.46
Flaubert, Gustave (1821–1880), 79
Fletcher, Angus (b. 1930), 349
Fletcher, John (1579–1625), 413n.5
Fletcher, Phineas (1582–1660), 93
Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, The (Dunbar), 70
Ford, John (1586–ca. 1639), 161, 406n.25
form criticism, 356
Forster, E.M. (1879–1970), 366, 410n.85
Foucault’s Pendulum (Eco), 413n.12 and n.14
Four Quartets (Eliot), 91, 330
Four Zoas (Blake), 107, 349, 370
Fowler, H.W. (1858–1933) and F.G. (1871–1918), xvi, 47–8, 390n.57
fragmented visionaries, 334
Fra Lippo Lippi (Browning), 51
Franck, César (1822–1890), 29, 390n.38
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), 125
Franklin’s Tale, The (Chaucer), 64
Frazer, Sir James (1854–1941), 235, 270, 341
Freckles (Stratton-Porter), 406n.19
friendship, 18, 144, 217, 220, 229, 238
Frobenius, Leo (1873–1938), 369
Frost, Robert (1874–1963), 130
Frye, Elizabeth Eedy (1912–1997), xxx
Fuller, Andrew (1754–1815), 37
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), 121
Garbo, Greta (1905–1990), 58
Garden of Eden, 76, 92, 214, 275, 387, 304, 307, 335, 338, 371, 399n.39
Garden, The (Marvell), 219
Gardner, Helen (1908–1986), 90, 393n.8
Gaster, Theodore H. (1906–1992), 176, 377
Gauguin, Paul (1848–1903), 80
Genealogy of Morals (Nowlan), 410n.3
Genesis, Book of, 13, 174, 352
“George Gordon, Lord Byron” (Frye), 402n.11
Gerontion (Eliot), 89
Gibbon, Edward (1737–1794), 51, 76, 399n.38
Gift, The (Hyde), 412n.10
Gilbert, W.S. (1836–1911), and Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), 18, 28–9, 42, 389n.29, 390n.36
Giotto di Bondone (ca. 1266–1337), 42
Girl Who Gets Flogged, The (Menander), 410n.89
Girl Who Has Her Hair Cropped, The (Menander), 410n.89
Glacken, Clarence J. (1909–1999), 414n.27
“Glad Ghosts” (Lawrence), 25
glasnost, 361
Glover, T.R. (1869–1943), 20, 389n.25
Gneisenau, August Neidhardt von (1760–1831), 52
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832), 7, 12, 35, 82
Going, Cathleen, 333, 341, 345
Goldoni, Carlo (1707–1793), xxiv, 186–9
Goldyn Targe, The (Dunbar), 71
Goodman, William, 351
Gospel of Nicodemus, 146
Gounod, Charles (1881–1893), 55
Gower, John (ca. 1325–1408), 64, 68, 152, 392n.6
Goya, Francisco (1746–1828), 318
Gozzi, Carlo (1720–1806), xxiv, 186–9, 196, 324
Graham, Nicholas W., xxviii, 315, 355
Grande Valse Brillante (Chopin), 9
Graves, Robert (1895–1985), 108, 270
Gray, Thomas (1716–1771), 62
Great Code, The (Frye), xxxii
Greek language, 51
Greene, Robert (1558–1592), xxiv, 149–52
Gregory the Great, Pope (ca. 540–604), 63
Grimm’s Fairy Tales, 344
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 265, 401n.49
Guy Mannering (Scott), xxiv, 194–202
Gwynne, Frederick, 135
Hadas, Moses (1900–1966), xxiv, 145–7, 172–6
Haggard, Rider (1856–1925), 144
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 14–17, 18, 54, 373–4
Hamlet (character), 89
Hammerclavier Sonata (Beethoven), 27
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott (1866–1933), 68
Händel, George Frideric (1685–1759), xv, 43, 54, 59, 390n.52
Handley Cross (Surtees), 407n.46
Hard Times (Dickens), 55, 290, 391n.65
Hardy, Thomas (1849–1928), xv, 37, 42, 57
Harlequin, The (Goldoni), xxiv, 186–9
Haroun al Raschid (763–809 C.E.), 109
Harrison, Jane Ellen (1850–1928), 14, 388n.14
Havelock, Eric (1903–1988), 343
Hawes, Stephen (ca. 1475–1511), 72–3
Hawkins, John (1532–1595), 29
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804–1864), 95, 395n.25
Haydn, Joseph (1732–1809), 39
Hegel, G.W.F. (1770–1831), 35
Heidegger, Martin (1889–1976), xxv
Helen of Troy, 108
Heliodorus of Emesa (3rd or 4th century C.E.), xxiv, 154–61
Hellenistic Culture (Hadas), xxiv, 172–6
Hemingway, Ernest (1899–1961), 81
Henry IV (Shakespeare), 38, 376
Henry V (Shakespeare), 375
“Henry James and the Comedy of the Occult” (Frye), 415n.38
Heraclitus (ca. 540–ca. 480 B.C.E.), 107, 364
Herakles, 110
Herbert, George (1593–1633), 75–6
Hero and Leander (Marlowe), 220
Heywood, Thomas (ca. 1574–1641), 17
higher consciousness, xxv–xxvi
Hippolyta, 317
Hippolytus (Euripides), 174
History of English Literature (Broadus), 57
history: cyclic view of, 327–8
levels of, 363
and myth, 363
spectral analysis of, 11
Hitler, Adolf (1889–1945), 42
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679), 7, 31
Hoccleve, Thomas (1368–1426), 69
Hoffmann, E.T.A. (1776–1822), 287
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894), 5, 388n.2
Homer (8th century B.C.E.), 43, 103, 121, 329
Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 175, 406n.29
Hood, Thomas (1799–1845), 43
Hooke, S.H. (1874–1968), 354
Hopkey, Sophia, 416n.12
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–1899), 329
Horace (65–8 B.C.E.), 51, 58, 173, 175–6, 391n.71
House by the Churchyard (Le Fanu), 251
Housman, A.E. (1859–1936), 103
“How True a Twain” (Frye), 402n.14
How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth? (Knight), 413n.11
Howard, Henry, the Earl of Surrey (1517–1547), 17
Howarth, Herbert (1900–1971), 90
Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 41
Hudson Review, The, xviii
Hugo, Victor (1802–1885), 353
Hulme, T.E. (1883–1917), 394n.13
Human Age, The (Lewis), xix, 79, 84
humanism, 121–2
humanities, 76, 102, 104, 117, 122, 124, 134
and the sciences, 120–1
teaching the, 114–16
Hume, David (1711–76), 31
Hunt, Leigh (1784–1859), 17
Hunters of Euboea (Dio Chrysostom), 146
Hunting Cantata (Bach), 400n.45
Hunting of the Snark, The (Carroll), 5
Huxley, Aldous (1894–1963), 391n.62
Hyde, Lewis (b. 1945), 365, 412n.10
Hymn in Honour of Beauty, A (Spenser), 219
Hymn of the Soul a.k.a. Hymn of the Pearl, 139, 153, 177, 404n.2
Ibsen, Henrik (1828–1906), 43
Idea of a Christian Society, The (Eliot), 92
identity, 99, 103, 108, 158, 163, 179, 185, 186, 192, 214, 259, 260, 270, 287, 288, 292, 323, 369, 375
ideologies, 357
Idiot, The (Dostoevsky), 108, 401n.53
Idylls of the King (Tennyson), 41
Iliad, The (Homer), 174, 234, 236, 335
imagination: as the basis of mental health, 93
for Blake and Yeats, the only creative faculty, 351
candle image applied to, 291
as compatible with common sense, 291
as directly addressing the spirit, 334
as doublethink, in Orwell’s sense, 364
feeds on the paradox of “is” and “is not,” 412n.8
fight of against excessive demands, 105–6
fight of against illusion, 105–6
informing of thought by, 97
intensity of in literature, 337–8
its language, the language of love, 357
not creative, 72
the nourisher of life, 354
the object of the critic’s study, 357
the object of the mirror theme’s appeal, 287
pathology of, 93
as patterns developed by the mind, 132
the poetic, 136
poverty of, 127
pregnancy of, 234
as the presence of the spirit of God, 291
problem of teaching and training it, 102
the producer of culture, 357
reflexions on, xix
relation to sense, 100
romantic, 204
Romantic world that exists below, 290, 301, 308
self-directed, 106
in Stevens, the struggle with otherness, 351
stretching the, 103
theory of games in, 99
total lack of, 44
as total mind, 110
uncultivated, 291
vitality of, 322
working of the historical, 291
“Imaginative and the Imaginary, The” (Frye), 112, 394n.18, 366n.5, 402n.9
imperialism, 21
mental, 349
Inferno (Dante), 108
of muse, 173
musical, 288
“Instruments of Mental Production, The” (Frye), 403n.1
interpenetration, xiv, xxi, 38, 340, 349, 365
“Interpreter’s Parlour” (Frye), 395n.23
“Intoxicated with Words” (Frye), xvii, 61–74
“Introduction,” Design for Learning, 395n.1, 396n.15
“Introduction to Fables of Identity” (Frye), 111–13
Irenaeus (ca. 130–ca. 200 C.E.), 378
Irving, Washington (1783–1859), 33
Irwin, Grace (1907–2008), 353, 412n.5
Isaiah, 40, 76, 174, 175, 377, 397
Islam, 355
“Ivy Day in the Committee Room” (Joyce), 30
James, Henry (1843–1916), xxx, 13, 25, 26, 27, 33, 177, 179, 214
James, William (1842–1910), 89, 319
Japan: A Short Cultural History (Sansom), 414n.19
Japp, Alexander H. (1837–1905), 308, 357, 417
Jastrow, Joseph (1863–1944), 103, 400n.41
Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) (1763–1825), 95
Jeffreys, George (1645–1689), 6, 388n.4
Jehovah, 366
Jesus, 7, 11, 21, 43, 50, 53, 327, 332, 343, 368, 370. See also Christ
Jesus of History, The (Glover), 389n.25
Joachim of Floris (ca. 1135–1202), 364, 376, 412n.3
Joan of Arc (ca. 1412–1431), 45, 94
Job, Book of, 162, 311, 327, 350
Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784), 13, 48, 388n.13
Johnston, Mary (1870–1936), xxx–xxxi, 363, 387n.4
Jolly Beggars, The (Burns), 38
Jones, Ernest (1879–1958), 300, 409n.73
Jonson, Ben (1572–1637), 154, 206, 389n.20, 401n.49
Josephus (ca. 37–100 C.E.), 173, 414n.16
Joyce, James (1882–1941), xvi, xix–xx, xxi, 78, 81, 82, 90, 96, 113, 305
Jubilees, Book of, 389n.22
Julie, or the New Heloise (Rousseau), 38
Jung, Carl (1875–1961), xxxii, 270, 316–17, 370–1
Kafka, Franz (1883–1924), 334
“Kairos and Logos,” 294
Kallen, Horace (1882–1974), 174, 406n.28
Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804), 35
Kapital, Das (Marx), 31
Katz, Leon (b. 1919), 187
Keats, John (1795–1821), xv, 22, 37, 44, 54, 135, 141, 330, 364
Kenner, Hugh (1923–2003), 90
Kepler, Johannes (1571–1630), 121
Kerényi, Karl (1897–1973), 175
kerygma, xxv
“Keys to the Gates, The” (Frye), 404n.10
Kierkegaard, Søren (1813–1855), 302
King Arthur, 122
King Lear (character), 122
King Lear (Shakespeare), 14–15, 95, 110, 326, 374
King’s English, The (Fowler and Fowler), xvi, 47, 48, 390n.57
King’s Threshold, The (Yeats), 108
Kingsley, Charles (1819–1875), 407n.42
Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936), 57, 90
Kipps (Wells), 93
Klee, Paul (1879–1940), 101
Knight, G. Wilson (1897–1985), 16, 413n.11
Knight’s Tale, The (Chaucer), 64
“Knowledge of Good and Evil, The” (Frye), 403n.1
Knox, John (1513–1572), 24
Kurelek, William (1927–1977), 359
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 14, 388n.15
Laforgue, Jules (1860–1887), 89, 90
Lament for the Makers (Dunbar), 70
Langland, William (ca. 1330–ca. 1400), 57
of the Bible, 301
Chaucerian, 73
of convention and tradition, 76
diseased, 88
doctrinal, 357
English, 47
grammar of, 75
hieratic, 67
of the imagination, 357
inductive, 31–2
inflected, 121
intentionally vague, 69
of love, 357
musical, 54–5
mythological, 325
of ordinary speech, 106
of philosophy, 121
pugilistic, 51
sexist, xvi
sonorous, 69
T.S. Eliot’s, 66
untranslatable, 85
William Morris’s, xxvi
words added to, 66
Lankavatara sutra, 340
Lascia ch’io Piange (Händel), 43
Later Story of Rama, The, xxv, 191
Latin, xvi, 47, 51, 62, 63, 66, 67, 71, 73, 74, 121, 125, 161, 162, 373, 383
Laude, Virginitatis, Die (St. Aldhelm), 392n.3
Lavengro (Borrow), 251
Lavoisier, Antoine (1743–1794), 121
Lawrence, D.H. (1885–1930), 24–5, 47, 79, 80, 102, 103, 377, 388n.15
Lawrence, W.W. (1876–1958), 41
Layton, Irving (1912–2006), 104
Lear, Edward (1812–88), xv, 39
Leary, Timothy (1920–1996), 407n.77
Leavis, F.R. (1895–1978), 90, 393n.7
Lee, Hope (1928–1998) and Alvin (b. 1930), 188
Le Fanu, Sheridan (1814–1873), 181, 251
Lenin, Vladimir (1870–1924), 42, 361
Leucippe and Clitophon. See Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon
levels: of the academic vision, 104
of ascent, 335
of history, 363
of the imagination’s fight, 105, 106
of knowledge, 101
of literature, 322
of mimetic literature, 322
of the mind, 102
narrative, 222
of the new paradigm, 99–100
in Romanticism, of the mind, 301
Lewis, Sinclair (1885–1951), 15
Lewis, Wyndham (1882–1957), xviii–xix, 42, 78–84
his satiric style, 78–80
Leyden Papyrus, 6
liberalism, 22
libido, 368–9
library(ies) 10, 21, 287, 292, 297, 302
Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, The (Paltock), 287, 408n.64
Life of Cowley (Johnson), 76
Life of Demetrius (Plutarch), 162
Ligeia (Poe), xxvii, 230, 395n.25
Lilith (MacDonald), xxiv, 291–6
Liljegren, Sten Bodvar (1885–1984), 234, 407n.51
Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865), 103
Lindbergh, Charles (1902–1974), 58
Lindisfarne Gospels, 63
Lindsay, Vachel (1879–1931), 54
Lion and the Fox, The (Lewis), xix
Liszt, Franz (1811–-1886), 19, 54
literal meaning, 320
literary history, xvii
Literary History of Canada, 135–6
literature: analogous to music, 54
Anglo-Saxon as most advanced in Europe, 63
art of inscribing verbal patterns, 365
not an assemblage of virtues or faults, 53
Canadian, 136
classical influences on Renaissance, 76
confessional, 38
connection with history, 29
contemporary, 24
convention for expressing character in, 109
as always conventional, 318
critics of, 29
democratic and revolutionary forms of, 343
different levels of mimetic, 323
as displaced myth, 105
Dunbar’s as unlike Chaucerian, 70
effects of great migration on Latin, 62
English criticism of American, 33
English, depends on contrast and variety, 32
evaluation of, 134
experience of, 339
fashionable poetic diction in, 61
as filling in of myth, 97
forms descending from, 100
as the focus of where experience and thinking meet, 330
greatest fallacy in, 30
history of English, xvii
how to read, 101
humanists’ search for, 121
as hypothetical, 316
of the later eighteenth century, 112
Lear’s limericks as, 39
Lewis’s Human Age as having no place in, 84
as made out of other literature, xxvii
male-dominated conventions of, 151–2
miserable Soviet record in, 88
modern Russian, 359
as a movement in time, like music, 355
myth as structural element in, 112, 323
myths in, 101
participation as its end, 102
possession of, 340
presents a vision of possibilities, 104
relation to conceptual thought, 380
relation to other things, 99, 124
rhetorical aspects of, 102
Romantic movement in, 113
sketches of, 57
study of, 132
theory of comparative, 113
vital part of contemporary, 124
vortex of, 343
words added by Lydgate, 66
as written within a mythological universe, 348
“Literature as a Critique of Pure Reason” (Frye), 415n.34
“Literature as Context: Milton’s Lycidas” (Frye), 112, 402n.6
Little Dorrit (Dickens), 185
Little Gidding (Eliot), 107, 194
Livy (59 B.C.E.–17 C.E.), 51
Locke, John (1632–1704), 31
locus amoenus, 176, 214, 217, 221, 287, 309
Lodge, Thomas (1558–1625), xxiv, 147–9, 150, 405n.10
Logos, 364
Lohengrin (Wagner), 41
Loiselle, Helene, 315, 324, 328, 331, 332, 335, 336, 338, 340, 341, 342, 345
Lonergan, Bernard (1904–1984), 340
Longest Journey, The (Forster), 410n.85
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882), xxiv, 263–5
Longinus (ca. 1st century C.E.), xxxii
Longus (3rd century), xxiii, xxvi, 138–42
Lorna Doone (Blackmore), 280
Lost Chord, The (Sullivan), 18
Love Romances (Parthenius of Nicaea), xxiv, 164–7
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The (Eliot), 89, 90
The Lover for Shamefastness Hideth His Desire (Wyatt), 69
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare), 147, 216
Loyola, Ignatius (1491–1556), 364
Lucan (39–65 C.E.), 329
Lucian (ca. 117–180 C.E.), 162, 175
Lucretius (ca. 99–55 B.C.E.), 9
Luddites, 125
Luther, Martin (1483–1546), xxviii, 10, 383, 385, 415n.1
Lycidas (Milton), 140
Lydgate, John (ca. 1370–ca. 1451), 65, 66, 68, 69, 73
Lyly, John (1554–1606), 48, 147
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800–1859), 30
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 14–15, 17, 44
MacCallum, Reid (1897–1949), 90
MacDonald, George (1824–1905), xxiv, 142, 285–300, 301
Macdonald, Sir John A. (1815–1891), 43, 390n.51
MacDowell, Edward (1861–1908), 12
MacGuigan, Gerald, 315, 319–20, 321, 322, 323–8, 328–9, 330, 332, 335, 337, 345
Mackail, J.W. (1859–1945), 270, 279
McLuhan, Marshall (1911–1980), xxi, xxii, 348
Macpherson, Jay (1931–2012), xiv
Macpherson Report, xxi–xxii, 114–19
Machen, Arthur, 387n.3
Macrobius (fl. 400 C.E.), 412n.1
Magic Flute, The (Mozart), 188
Maiden without Hands (Brothers Grimm), 153
Mallarmé, Stéphane (1842–1892), 90
Malory, Sir Thomas (1405–1471), 33, 41
Man of Law’s Tale, The (Chaucer), xxiv, 152–4, 406n.18
Man Who Lost Himself, The (Sitwell), 24
mandala, 370–1
Manet, Édouard (1832–1883), 318
Mansfield, Katherine (1888–1923), 47
Mantegna, Andrea (1431–1506), 42
Mao Tse-tung (1893–1976), 130
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso (1876–1944), 81–2
Marlowe, Christopher (1564–1593), 72
Marriage of Figaro, The (Beaumarchais), 190
Marston, John (1576–1634), 53
Marvell, Andrew (1621–1678), 219
Marx, Karl (1818–1883), 31, 44, 124
Masefield, John (1878–1967), 57
Massey, Vincent (1887–1967), 353
Massey Commission, 411n.2
Massey Report, 353
Massinger, Philip (1583–1640), 53
Master and Margarita, The (Bulgakov), xxiii, 359, 387n.2
Matthiessen, F.O. (1902–1950), 91, 393n.8
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare), 14, 218, 317
“Meeting of Past and Future in William Morris, The” (Frye), 415n.32
Albion’s, 136
contemplative, 247
high-minded, 256
muse of, 193
as physical disease, 372
reclusive, 205
of Shakespeare’s clowns, 188
of tyrant, 225
in Vaughan’s poetry, 64
Mélange Adultère de Tout (Eliot), 92
Meleager, 173
Melville, Herman (1819–1891), 33
Men without Art (Lewis), xix, 79, 90
Menander (342–291 B.C.E.), 410n.89
Mencken, H.L. (1880–1956), 8
Mental Traveller, The (Blake), 107
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 10–11, 41, 170
Merlin, 122
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare), 187
Messiah (Händel), 59
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 140
metaphor, 97, 99, 106, 334, 351, 364, 365
architectural, 342
battle, 52
in “catastrophe,” 350
father, 52
God-is-king, 366
hunting, 221
and interpenetration, 365
of a labyrinth, 180
machine, 80
mixed, 200
and myth, 101
and natural cycle, 103